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wp menu item list

Gets a list of items associated with a menu.

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Options

<menu>
The name, slug, or term ID for the menu.
[--fields=<fields>]
Limit the output to specific object fields.
[--format=<format>]
Render output in a particular format.
—
default: table
options:
– table
– csv
– json
– count
– ids
– yaml
—

Available Fields

These fields will be displayed by default for each menu item:
  • db_id
  • type
  • title
  • link
  • position
These fields are optionally available:
  • menu_item_parent
  • object_id
  • object
  • type
  • type_label
  • target
  • attr_title
  • description
  • classes
  • xfn

Examples

$ wp menu item list main-menu
+-------+-----------+-------------+---------------------------------+----------+
| db_id | type      | title       | link                            | position |
+-------+-----------+-------------+---------------------------------+----------+
| 5     | custom    | Home        | http://example.com              | 1        |
| 6     | post_type | Sample Page | http://example.com/sample-page/ | 2        |
+-------+-----------+-------------+---------------------------------+----------+

Global Parameters

These global parameters have the same behavior across all commands and affect how WP-CLI interacts with WordPress.
Argument Description
--path=<path> Path to the WordPress files.
--url=<url> Pretend request came from given URL. In multisite, this argument is how the target site is specified.
--ssh=[<scheme>:][<user>@]<host\|container>[:<port>][<path>] Perform operation against a remote server over SSH (or a container using scheme of “docker”, “docker-compose”, “docker-compose-run”, “vagrant”).
--http=<http> Perform operation against a remote WordPress installation over HTTP.
--user=<id\|login\|email> Set the WordPress user.
--skip-plugins[=<plugins>] Skip loading all plugins, or a comma-separated list of plugins. Note: mu-plugins are still loaded.
--skip-themes[=<themes>] Skip loading all themes, or a comma-separated list of themes.
--skip-packages Skip loading all installed packages.
--require=<path> Load PHP file before running the command (may be used more than once).
--exec=<php-code> Execute PHP code before running the command (may be used more than once).
--context=<context> Load WordPress in a given context.
--[no-]color Whether to colorize the output.
--debug[=<group>] Show all PHP errors and add verbosity to WP-CLI output. Built-in groups include: bootstrap, commandfactory, and help.
--prompt[=<assoc>] Prompt the user to enter values for all command arguments, or a subset specified as comma-separated values.
--quiet Suppress informational messages.

Command documentation is regenerated at every release. To add or update an example, please submit a pull request against the corresponding part of the codebase.